The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 1: 1898-1922

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by T. S. Eliot


  review of Criterion and TWL, 1;

  see also Richmond, Bruce TSE CONTRIBUTIONS: ‘Andrew Marvell’, 1;

  book reviews, 1n;

  ‘Ben Jonson’, 1n, 2n, 3, 4, 5n;

  letters to editor, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  ‘The Metaphysical Poets’, 1, 2, 3;

  ‘Philip Massinger’, 1n, 2, 3

  ‘To Criticise the Critic’, 1n

  ‘To Walter de la Mare’, 1n

  To-Day, 1, 2n, 3n, 4n, 5

  Tolstoy, Leo, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Tomlinson, H. M., 1n

  Tomorrow Club, 1n, 2, 3, 4

  Tonks, Henry, 1n

  Torquay, 1

  Torrence, Ridgely, 1n

  Tosti, Lady, 1

  Tosti, Sir Francesco Paolo, 1n, 2n, 3n

  Toulet, Jean-Paul, 1n

  Tourneur, Cyril, 1, 2

  ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’, 1n, 2n, 3n

  Tree, Iris, 1n, 2

  Trench, F. Herbert, 1n, 2

  Trevelyan, G. M., 1n

  Trevelyan, Sir George Macaulay, 1n, 2

  Trevelyan, R. C., 1n, 2, 3

  ‘Tristan Corbière’, 1n

  Trocadero museum, 1

  Trotter, William, 1n

  Trouville, 1

  Tunbridge Wells, 1

  Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich, 1, 2

  Turner, Major, 1, 2

  Turner, W. J., 1n

  Two Worlds, 1

  Tyro, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  ‘Ulysses, Order and Myth’, 1n, 2

  Untermeyer, Louis, 1n, 2n, 3n, 4, 5n, 6

  ‘Up Boys and at ’Em’, 1

  Upward, Allen, 1n

  US Army/Navy: baseball, 1n;

  TSE’s attempts to join, 1, 2, 3

  The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism, 1n, 2n

  Valéry, Paul, 1n, 2, 3n, 4, 5, 6

  Van Doren, Mark, 1n

  Van Ness, Ann, 1n, 2, 3

  Vanderpyl, Fritz, 1n, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Vandervelde, Emile, 1n

  Vandervelde, Lalla, 1n, 2n

  Vanity Fair, 1n, 2, 3, 4, 5

  The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry (Clark lectures), 1n

  Vauxcelles, Louis, 1n

  Verdenal, Jean Jules, 1;

  TSE’s acquaintance with, 1;

  correspondence with TSE in Munich, 1, 2, 3;

  death, 1

  Verlaine, Paul, 1n, 2n

  Verona, 1, 2

  Versailles, Treaty of (1919), 1, 2

  ‘Verse and Prose’, 1

  ‘Verse Pleasant and Unpleasant’, 1n, 2n

  Viau, Théophile de, 1n

  Victoria & Albert Museum, 1

  ‘A Victorian Sculptor’, 1n

  Vildrac, Charles, 1n

  Virgil, 1

  Vittoz, Dr Roger, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Vogue, 1

  Voltaire (François Marie Arouet), 1, 2

  Wadsworth, Edward Alexander, 1n;

  exhibitions, 1, 2;

  war service, 1;

  TSE buys picture, 1;

  designs for AVP, 1;

  and Dial, 1;

  and Tyro, 1;

  buys portrait by WL, 1n;

  on TSE’s health, 1

  Wagner, Richard, 1, 2

  Walker, Henry, 1n

  Wallace Collection, 1

  Wallas, Graham, 1, 2n, 3, 4n, 5

  Waller, Edmund, 1, 2

  Walpole, Hugh, 1n, 2, 3, 4

  Ward, Frederick W. O., 1n

  Wardle, Mark, 1, 2

  The Waste Land: allusions to in TSE’s letters, 1, 2;

  allusions to Wagner, 1n;

  Criterion publication, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;

  and Dial 1922 award, 1, 2;

  EP helps edit, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  EP on, 1, 2n;

  epigraph, 1;

  Hogarth Press edition, 1;

  HWE Jr on, 1;

  influences, 1n, 2n;

  MS bought by Quinn, 1, 2n, 3;

  quotes from Chapman’s Birds, 1n;

  references to London churches, 1n;

  reviews, 1n, 2;

  SS on, 1;

  TSE on, 1, 2;

  TSE shows to friends, 1, 2, 3;

  US copyright, 1;

  US publication, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19n, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32;

  VHE on, 1;

  and WL, 1n;

  writing of, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Waterlow, Margery, 1

  Waterlow, Sydney, 1n;

  TSE meets, 1;

  TSE reviews for, 1;

  socialising with Eliots, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  Legion of Honour, 1;

  dinner at Woolfs, 1;

  TSE on, 1, 2;

  further correspondence with TSE, 1, 2, 3

  Watson, James Sibley, 1n;

  position at Dial, 1n;

  and TWL, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;

  financing of Dial, 1;

  and Rothermere, 1

  Watson, John, 1n

  Waugh, Arthur, 1n, 2n

  Weaver, Harriet Shaw, 1;

  takes over Egoist, 1nn;

  TSE on, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  and Rodker, 1;

  and Egoist, 1, 2, 3;

  solicits material from TSE, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  sends TSE RA’s article on JJ, 1;

  passes on to TSE bits of Ulysses, 1n;

  publishes Moore, 1;

  corresponds with JJ, 1n

  Webster, John, 1, 2n, 3

  Welch, Barbara Hinkley, 1n

  Welch, Edward Sohier, 1n, 2

  Wellesley College, 1n, 2

  Wells, E. H., 1n, 2

  Wells, H. G., 1

  Wescott, Glenway, 1n

  Westminster Gazette, 1, 2, 3, 4n

  Wheels, 1n, 2n, 3

  Whibley, Charles, 1n, 2, 3

  ‘Whispers of Immortality’, 1n, 2, 3

  White, Sir William, 1n, 2n

  Whitechapel, 1

  Whitehead, Alfred North, 1n, 2

  Whitman, Walt, 1n

  Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1

  Whyte-Melville, G. J., 1n

  Wiener, Norbert, 1n, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 1n

  Wilde, Oscar, 1n, 2n, 3n, 4n, 5

  Wilenski, R. H., 1

  ‘William Blake’, 1n

  Williams, William Carlos, 1n, 2n, 3n

  Wilson, Edmund, 1n, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Wilson, John Croker, 1n

  Wilson, President Woodrow: TSE’s transatlantic voyage companions on, 1;

  and Sussex incident, 1;

  elected president, 1n;

  breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany, 1;

  declares war, 1n, 2;

  books about, 1n;

  TSE on League of Nations policy, 1, 2;

  visits UK, 1, 2;

  HWE Snr on, 1;

  at Versailles talks, 1

  Wither, George, 1

  Wolf, A., 1

  Wolfe, Thomas, 1n

  Wood, Bessie, 1

  Wood, Mrs Henry, 1n

  Wood, James, 1n

  Woods, James Haughton, 1;

  TSE writes to about Merton studies, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  TSE discusses future with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  TSE writes about book purchases for Harvard, 1, 2;

  and TSE’s PhD, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  exchange post in France, 1n;

  gives testimonial to US Army for TSE, 1, 2;

  hopes of tempting TSE back to Harvard, 1, 2;

  further correspondence with TSE, 1, 2

  Woolf, Leonard, 1n, 2;

  writes to solicit Hogarth Press work from TSE, 1;

  socialising with Eliots, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  bad feeling with Eliots, 1, 2;

  reviews SW, 1, 2, 3;

  and Dial, 1, 2;

  and TWL, 1;

  TSE discusses Criterion contributions with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  further correspondence with TSE, 1, 2;

  ‘Is This Poetry?’ (review
of Poems and JMM), 1n;

  Stories of the East, 1n, 2n;

  The Village in the Jungle, 1;

  see also Hogarth Press

  Woolf, Virginia, 1;

  on Omega Club, 1n;

  first meeting with TSE, 1;

  on TSE, 1n, 2n, 3n, 4n;

  socialising with Eliots, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;

  on VHE, 1n;

  bad feeling with Eliots, 1, 2;

  on EP, 1n;

  on WL, 1n;

  and OM, 1;

  MH sends TSE review by, 1;

  TSE on, 1, 2, 3;

  and Athenaeum, 1;

  and London Mercury, 1n;

  and Dial, 1;

  health, 1, 2, 3;

  and TWL, 1;

  on TSE on JMM, 1;

  and Bel Esprit, 1, 2;

  see also Hogarth Press

  WORKS: Dostoevsky translation, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  ‘In the Orchard’, 1n, 2, 3;

  ‘Is This Poetry?’ (review of Poems and JMM), 1n;

  Jacob’s Room, 1;

  Monday or Tuesday, 1n, 2;

  ‘On Being Ill’, 1n

  Workers Educational Association, see Southall lectures;

  Sydenham lectures

  Wren, Sir Christopher, 1

  Wycombe Grammar School, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Wylly, Col. H. C., 1n

  Wyndham, George, 1n, 2n

  ‘Wyndham Lewis’, 1n

  Xenophon, 1

  Yeats, William Butler, 1n;

  TSE hopes to meet up with, 1, 2;

  and Abbey Theatre, 1n;

  and Catholic Anthology, 1;

  and psychical research, 1;

  VHE on, 1;

  and Dial, 1;

  and Sturge Moore, 1n;

  TSE desires Criterion contribution from, 1, 2;

  on TSE’s poetry, 1;

  TSE meets, 1, 2;

  ‘A Biographical Fragment’, 1;

  The Player Queen, 1

  Yorkshire lectures, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Yorkshire Post, 1

  Zabarella, Giacomo, 1n, 2, 3

  Zimmern, Alfred, 1n

  1 TSE aged about three, holding Toby

  2A The Revd William Greenleaf Eliot, TSE’s grandfather

  2B TSE’s birthplace, 2635 Locust Street, St Louis, which no longer exists

  3 His parents at different ages

  4A Ada with Henry

  4B Henry with TSE

  4C ‘A baby face with golden promise fraught.’ TSE aged about four

  5 Daguerreotype of TSE with his sister Margaret

  6 With his Irish nursemaid, Annie Dunne, c.1895

  7A With his mother at East Gloucester, 1895

  7B In the schoolyard at the Mary Institute, St Louis, 1896

  8A On the porch at Eastern Point, 1896

  8B With T. L. McKittrick, a future President of the World Bank, 1896

  9A With his Hinkley cousins and their nannies on the beach at East Gloucester, 1896

  9B Eleanor and Barbara Hinkley with TSE in 1897

  10A Charlotte, the sister who painted his portrait

  10B His sister Marian

  10C At the front gate of 2635 on the morning after the cyclone of 27 May 1896, with his mother and, left, cousin Henrietta and sister Margaret. Marian is hidden

  11A With his father, 1895

  11B And in 1898

  12 TSE in his bedroom at St Louis, c.1900

  13A With his cousins Abigail, Martha and Frederick Eliot

  13B At the piano, c.1899

  13C One of his father’s cat drawings

  14A His mother’s bedroom at Locust Street

  14B Interior of the house at Eastern Point

  15 Charlotte’s oil portrait (18 x 23 in) c.1900–1. TSE is reading a volume of his red Shakespeare set, which remains in his library

  16 Aged about twelve

  17A The view from the Eliot home at Eastern Point

  17B TSE

  17C Henry, 1895

  18A 1907

  18b c.1908

  C On other occasions

  19A Henry (who is taking the photograph) with his parents at the breakfast table, 4446 Westminster Place, St Louis

  19B Henry

  19C TSE in 1910

  20 Sailing off the Dry Salvages

  21A TSE in the Elsa

  21B At the helm with a friend (probably Harold Peters)

  22 Jean Verdenal, January 1915

  23 His mother at her bedroom desk (see letter of 30 December 1917)

  24 Etching of Vivien Haigh-Wood as a child, by her father, which she gave to Enid Faber on 23 March 1933

  25A Vivien and TSE at 18 Crawford Mansions, 1916

  25B In the dining room at Crawford Mansions, July 1916

  26 Tom and Vivien, c.1920

  27 TSE with Ottoline Morrell at Garsington, c.1920

  28A TSE with Maurice Haigh-Wood, Bosham, Sussex, 26 August 1916

  28B At the door of South View, Bosham, 1916

  29A Vivien, Jeremy and Barbara Hutchinson (on wall). TSE, St John Hutchinson (‘Jack’), Sacheverell and Osbert Sitwell, at West Wittering, Sussex, July 1919

  29B TSE, Osbert Sitwell, Mary Hutchinson, Jeremy Hutchinson

  30 TSE with his mother at Clarence Gate Gardens, summer 1921

  31 TSE and Henry at Itchenor, Sussex, 1921

  32 Eleanor Hinkley, 1922

  About the Author

  Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He came to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.

  Valerie Eliot has edited T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land, a Facsimile & Transcript of the Original Drafts (1971) and The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume I: 1898–1922 (1988; revised 2009) and Volume II: 1923–1925 (2009).

  Hugh Haughton is Professor of English at the University of York, author of The Poetry of Derek Mahon (2007) and editor of Poetry of the Second World War (2004). He is the co-editor (with Valerie Eliot) of The Letters of T. S. Eliot (2009).

  John Haffenden is Research Professor of English Literature, University of Sheffield, and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London. He has edited several collections of the works of William Empson, including The Complete Poems (2000).

  By the Same Author

  THE COMPLETE POEMS AND PLAYS

  verse

  COLLECTED POEMS 1909–1962

  FOUR QUARTETS

  THE WASTE LAND AND OTHER POEMS

  THE WASTE LAND:

  A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts

  edited by Valerie Eliot

  INVENTIONS OF THE MARCH HARE:

  POEMS 1909–1917

  edited by Christopher Ricks

  SELECTED POEMS

  plays

  MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL

  THE FAMILY REUNION

  THE COCKTAIL PARTY

  THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK

  THE ELDER STATESMAN

  literary criticism

  THE SACRED WOOD

  SELECTED ESSAYS

  THE USE OF POETRY AND THE USE OF CRITICISM

  VARIETIES OF METAPHYSICAL POETRY

  edited by Ronald Schuchard

  TO CRITICIZE THE CRITIC

 

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